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i think the only way to really do that is through the educational system and young people. that is the mandate of the king center to help bring about this beloved community that daddy talked about by teaching people to educate them in the philosophy and methodology of nonviolence that he taught at lipton also develop in the same spirit of dr. king. that is what i'm doing at the king center and we are in the process of getting a whole new facility that will be more interactive so when young people come it will be like a social -- socially conscious disney experience. when we leave there it will be like you are in attain but you will be inspired and educated at the same time. >> host: is at the knees are still a baptist church? >> guest: there are two locations the historic heritage sanctuary which was just restored and reopened last april where people people can comment to her. it sits right next to the center. mother made sure she placed the king center in that community to preserve that community. it was a very driving community for african-americans back in the early 20s,
i think the only way to really do that is through the educational system and young people. that is the mandate of the king center to help bring about this beloved community that daddy talked about by teaching people to educate them in the philosophy and methodology of nonviolence that he taught at lipton also develop in the same spirit of dr. king. that is what i'm doing at the king center and we are in the process of getting a whole new facility that will be more interactive so when young...
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. >> carter appointed me when i left his education, running education. yet in the department of education and i went back to teaching at the appointed me to the commission. >> at what point to become the the u.s. civil rights commission will become a permanent agency? >> after the first year when the reports that they did -- with the commission did was instead of sitting down and saying, okay. we are here as a safety valve and don't really -- they did some hearings. major power that the commission has, and a point this out in the book. to me it is the most important thing about the commission. does what it is supposed to do it will go out and listen to people that nobody else will listen to. problems, civil rights problems that people had that they could not get anyone to pay attention, not just local people but the federal government. it would write letters, do all kinds. no one would pay any attention. the sole rights commission decided that first year it would go out and listen to these people and see what they had to say. they had the power to subpoe
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system in privatizing education. and it's interesting to me, minorities and low-income people and our education system. it's not designed to deal effectively except for people in college and that none of their effect of consequence. once once your site is that education. the fight in the short term we have to combine and this is something heritage does. this got to impact opinion leaders across the room by world-class research because these experiments have all been tried, so if we really do it right, we might not come in people on the far left that were right, but we will convince them to be less confident in their ideas. so we have to preach to people who don't agree are too old for us to change ideas. it got through world-class research that refuses the consequences they claim will come from their good policy. >> yes, ma'am. >> i thank you so much for your remarks. you say american don't want the government. in any of that, let's assume it is, then why do we keep electing the government? >> that's a fair question.
system in privatizing education. and it's interesting to me, minorities and low-income people and our education system. it's not designed to deal effectively except for people in college and that none of their effect of consequence. once once your site is that education. the fight in the short term we have to combine and this is something heritage does. this got to impact opinion leaders across the room by world-class research because these experiments have all been tried, so if we really do it...
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access to education, affordable access to education, which was avoucher program. the g.i.s could go to any school they wanted to go to the money went to them and not the schools. the second was access to affordable housing. if you roll the clock ahead to 2012, why is the middle class suffering? we don't have access to affordable high quality higher education. our students are taking on vastly too much debt. and my two sons, 38 and 34 years of age, who have good incomes, in one case more than mine -- cooperate even buy a house recently because the price of housing exceeds their income. and they're in the top 10% of income in the united states. that means housing is no longer accessible to the middle class. and when the middle class can't buy housing, the middle clarks as we have known it, since 1950, ceases to exist. so that's part two of the book. i've got programs that don't work, programs that do work, and then the intellectual challenge, which really took the longest period to get my head around, was, okay, if you know that these programs don't work and you've
access to education, affordable access to education, which was avoucher program. the g.i.s could go to any school they wanted to go to the money went to them and not the schools. the second was access to affordable housing. if you roll the clock ahead to 2012, why is the middle class suffering? we don't have access to affordable high quality higher education. our students are taking on vastly too much debt. and my two sons, 38 and 34 years of age, who have good incomes, in one case more than...
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rights, education and the whole debate over education reform, whether it works. we discussed and analyzed them. >> host: dear ms. washington? >> guest: i miss the power in government office. no matter how small the agency and how minister the power, when people have problems, you can sometimes help them. as far as the commission is concerned, i miss being able to bring people who no one heard from, no one would listen to and listen to what they have to say. >> host: isbister theatre for the? >> guest: now, i've written many more than that. i written probably nine or 10 books. >> host: is there another one coming? >> guest: i'm working on another one right now. the topic is what does it mean mean -- it's on voter fraud. i found some documents from the place in louisiana of all places, but they seem to have a persistent record of voter fraud to the 19th century till now and it's bipartisan. so i was given some records from voter fraud that goes down that nobody else has. so i've been reading them. so this book will be about if you want to see voter suppression, her
rights, education and the whole debate over education reform, whether it works. we discussed and analyzed them. >> host: dear ms. washington? >> guest: i miss the power in government office. no matter how small the agency and how minister the power, when people have problems, you can sometimes help them. as far as the commission is concerned, i miss being able to bring people who no one heard from, no one would listen to and listen to what they have to say. >> host: isbister...
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missionaries came and educated the reactive and why am i here driven by the fact they got to college in a yellow springs ohio she was involved in the naacp progressive political party and the peace movement and was involved in the peace movement well in advance of that. estimate the public image of your mother is behind the scenes , quite yet -- what was she like as a person? >> she was very mission driven and the thing i like to say most is on the conventional level she used to tell me all the time for a woman to experience all that she's experienced right after the montgomery bus boy protest that is a time all of the emotions and the hate and hostility she had no notion of bitterness and all this love and understanding and goodwill and hope and faith and she just loved and didn't let that hinder her work so you can imagine we hear about our father being assassinated. i'm five, my brother is seven. little kids are sad he's taken away that way. you can really become very pay to fill the but my mother taught us about loving and that you're father left for this cause and gave his life.
missionaries came and educated the reactive and why am i here driven by the fact they got to college in a yellow springs ohio she was involved in the naacp progressive political party and the peace movement and was involved in the peace movement well in advance of that. estimate the public image of your mother is behind the scenes , quite yet -- what was she like as a person? >> she was very mission driven and the thing i like to say most is on the conventional level she used to tell me...
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eliminating gender disparity in educational access. one facet of progress that remained almost completely unappreciated in the last is the way for access to higher education is altering the status of iranian women. while the islamic republic places restrictions on women, that westerners would consider unacceptable in their own societies. the majority of university students are now female. the majority of students in the best universities are now female. the majority of medical students in iran are now female and women's presence is increasingly felt across an array of academic and professional discipline. now notwithstanding these comic republic staying power, foreign policy pundits here who in many cases have no direct connection to on the ground reality in siberian and a cadre of so-called iran thanks very common many of whom are ex-features serving in american history in mice fled the revolution and don't want to see the islamic republic succeed. these commentators continue to misread and misinterpret a reigning politics telling a s
eliminating gender disparity in educational access. one facet of progress that remained almost completely unappreciated in the last is the way for access to higher education is altering the status of iranian women. while the islamic republic places restrictions on women, that westerners would consider unacceptable in their own societies. the majority of university students are now female. the majority of students in the best universities are now female. the majority of medical students in iran...
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and a failed k through 12 education system. we have the potential for bad times but it is not too late. these go exponential in about eight years we have that time frame. if we don't move in the next four or five years it becomes almost impossible mathematically without social upheaval. that would not be fun. i don't think that i am fairly optimistic. that sounds strange but i think that fundamentally don't like big government when time is moving the wrong direction like we did in 2010 when americans pushed back needlelike this direction is the caveat but we have the best idea is good news is sadism doesn't work. it fails over and over. johnny hauser prize they were but that did not surprise me at all. communism always fails. and stated similes sales but will we be there with the right ideas to move the country in the right direction? we do have a bright ideas. i seemed we will win because they have the right ideas. and to have to do with individual ethics we had problems economically but also of a deviation as business and pol
and a failed k through 12 education system. we have the potential for bad times but it is not too late. these go exponential in about eight years we have that time frame. if we don't move in the next four or five years it becomes almost impossible mathematically without social upheaval. that would not be fun. i don't think that i am fairly optimistic. that sounds strange but i think that fundamentally don't like big government when time is moving the wrong direction like we did in 2010 when...
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sylvia porter's developed this over period ears and her goal was to educate people so the great depression never happens again but it is an idea we can teach people certain skills and we will be okay. >> host: university of pennsylvania history professor, steven hahn the author of "the political worlds of slavery and freedom." professor, before we get into the subject what is this image on the front cover. >> guest: a good question. i have no idea. the editor proposes a very eye-catching image when i showed it to friends and colleagues they had no idea what it meant. does not clearly relate to anything in the book but they bring interested in selling books. that is how they chose it. is an interesting photograph, and speaks to complex connections within the african-american community with gender and power, but beyond that, i don't know. >> host: professor hahn what do we know wrongly about slavery in the u.s.? >> guest: one of the issues i try to do with is the process by which slavery ended and the geographical reach of slavery. the view that tends to be handed down, the country be divide
sylvia porter's developed this over period ears and her goal was to educate people so the great depression never happens again but it is an idea we can teach people certain skills and we will be okay. >> host: university of pennsylvania history professor, steven hahn the author of "the political worlds of slavery and freedom." professor, before we get into the subject what is this image on the front cover. >> guest: a good question. i have no idea. the editor proposes a...
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that is aids education. >> thank you for being here. i am dr. sam hancock of emerald planet tv. the transportation system supply chain within 24 hours as you know viruses could be around the globe so one of the most underfunded public programs is public health. this is something a massive amount of money has been drawn out of over the last 50 years, specialty. are there any best practices you have seen in various countries you have traveled to about how to build up the public health system so they can more easily identify some of these viruses and respond to it or something that is always reactive instead of proactive? >> thank you for your question. some very interesting initiatives of vigilance that are going on and you may have heard of some of these. one that comes to mind is something called a global viral forecasting initiative founded by nathan wolfe, the young disease scientist based in stamford. teamwork in cameron for years doing field work on the transmission of viruses by way of bush meat from africa wildlife into hunters, the bush meet hunters and their family. nath
that is aids education. >> thank you for being here. i am dr. sam hancock of emerald planet tv. the transportation system supply chain within 24 hours as you know viruses could be around the globe so one of the most underfunded public programs is public health. this is something a massive amount of money has been drawn out of over the last 50 years, specialty. are there any best practices you have seen in various countries you have traveled to about how to build up the public health...
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the islamic republic is also greatly -- has also greatly expanded educational opportunities, vastly increasing literacy rates in iran and, according to the world bank, basically eliminating gender disparities in the educational access. one facet of women's progress in iran that remains almost completely unappreciated in the west is the way that access to higher education is altering the status of iranian women. while the islamic republic places restrictions on women, say in matters of dress, for example, that westerners would consider up acceptable in their own societies, the majority of university students in iran are now female, the majority of students in the best universities in iran are now female, the majority of medical students in rapp -- in iran are now female, and women's presence is increasingly felt across an array of academic and professional disciplines. now, notwithstanding the islamic republic's staying power, foreign policy pundits here who, in many cases, have no direct connection to on-the-ground reality inside iran and a cadre of so-called iran experts, many of whom are exp
the islamic republic is also greatly -- has also greatly expanded educational opportunities, vastly increasing literacy rates in iran and, according to the world bank, basically eliminating gender disparities in the educational access. one facet of women's progress in iran that remains almost completely unappreciated in the west is the way that access to higher education is altering the status of iranian women. while the islamic republic places restrictions on women, say in matters of dress,...
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they were people who had higher education's and they actually travel the world and learn from other cultures. the constitution was written by men who had studied the government's through history and other countries and picking and choosing from the various things that they saw describing the things they felt didn't work and coming up with creative solutions for the issues they thought hadn't been resolved by others. more people are voting now than they had in past years because of worries me when the citizens for debt that it is their obligation not to let the country just happened, but to create a the country that they want. they tell me how did you feel about immigration lollies, the immigration law, how do you feel about the debate on the amendment and there are always questions like that would be called i generally have the cases i am still considering our that we have made up our mind because i haven't. but if i express an opinion, that is what they will believe. having said that what you can say to them is why are you asking me? why aren't you asking yourself? what do you think? and wh
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six years ago in bermuda i embarked on a 140 foot sailing ship, the seat association education, i was at sea for three weeks away from telephones, internet and libraries. but i was in the middle of a research project on benjamin franklin that required me to read material in french. i decided to use my time at sea to revise my french by reading a novel in that language. the book i chose is a small paperback edition of jules verne's around the world in 80 days first published as a newspaper serial in 1882. when i wasn't on watch or otherwise busy on the ship by slowly made my way to the book. my french was good enough to my surprise that i enjoyed the story and as a historian i appreciated it. a detail. especially the nature of the sense the protagonist racing around world. at his london club he remarks offhandedly that scheduled travel services could take a person around the globe in a period of the days. proved it, a challenge him and he is off. the att measure was only conceivable by the late nineteenth century. in the age of sail getting around world had taken months or even years.
six years ago in bermuda i embarked on a 140 foot sailing ship, the seat association education, i was at sea for three weeks away from telephones, internet and libraries. but i was in the middle of a research project on benjamin franklin that required me to read material in french. i decided to use my time at sea to revise my french by reading a novel in that language. the book i chose is a small paperback edition of jules verne's around the world in 80 days first published as a newspaper...
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. >> we really understood the press s educational media media, educational tv. everything that had been going on that we were involved in had been going on 100 years. it was very hard to get out. this was 1963, i was reminded fred came to get martin luther king on the 17th of december to promise he would come to birmingham this year because on the 14th f-15 to fred's church was bombed for the third time in 1962. the bombings of homes receive no publicity. but fred was quite frank that he needed martin luther king to come to get any attention to this injustice. another good friend that was with us was a cameraman was quite blunt with me about it saying you have to cut me some slack because i've got to keep the camera on dr. king. if they kill him and i don't get a picture of it, i lose my job. it was almost that cold and analysis wear -- where martin luther king knew he was being used to focus on this injustice. and did it willingly. at the same time guys like jack nelson understood that and the cameraman was lawrence peers who had been with a friend of martin's
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it was in a book about teaching kids how to smoke weed, but an educational book about how they might talk to their kids about a difficult subject with him i don't run into. so that's where the format is an illustrated picture book for kids. as i got into the subject and started looking into train, which is relevant to some children's lives. their children but pickett, families involved in the oppressive policies to eradicate coca and it's a social or cultural issue. as i got deeper into the history of coca and specifically with relationships of the coca-cola company, origins from a medical marvel to the drug problem we have today, it got really complicated and so now it's a book for adults. i also started in coca with coffee because they wanted to do a comparison is not in that fascinated me with the way the drugs, plants change their perceptions over time for the cultural perceptions, the legal, social perceptions. as inspired by michael collins spoke about body of desire, where he talks about the history for different plants. when apples came to this country, they want the fleshy f
it was in a book about teaching kids how to smoke weed, but an educational book about how they might talk to their kids about a difficult subject with him i don't run into. so that's where the format is an illustrated picture book for kids. as i got into the subject and started looking into train, which is relevant to some children's lives. their children but pickett, families involved in the oppressive policies to eradicate coca and it's a social or cultural issue. as i got deeper into the...
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educating. they carried at this very intense education campaign to try to bring what they call informed influential in government around government and media into their conversation about how the global oil markets actually work. most politicians don't have time or interest to study these kind of complexities. and one of the executives interviewed told me that one of the world leaders to understand best, how the global oil markets really are coming into british liquid and nationalism, though it can be relevant, is not what it seems. energy independence. and this executive was talking tony blair. he said, you know, you are one of the few people who run the government to actually understand how the oil markets work. isn't that a shame. there supposedly said something like, you would not one of the politicians know because then they think they would do something about it. >> one that sticks in my mind. it's happening right now in washington on both parties to both parties are trying to get a handle
educating. they carried at this very intense education campaign to try to bring what they call informed influential in government around government and media into their conversation about how the global oil markets actually work. most politicians don't have time or interest to study these kind of complexities. and one of the executives interviewed told me that one of the world leaders to understand best, how the global oil markets really are coming into british liquid and nationalism, though it...
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get access to much more benign drugs like marijuana, they might make decisions that if they had the education to know that this is actually a healthier choice for you. it's a harm reduction model. we might not ever get rid of drugs completely, but there are safer alternatives to the worse options. >> we have one last question over here in the corner for the evening, and then we're going to have to wrap up this portion and move on to the book signing. so the last question for the evening. >> okay. i wanted to thank you, very, very good presentation. and i think you presented a very good case where the coca leaf is innocuous or even beneficial substance. however, it is true you get cocaine from the coca, and cocaine is quite a, um, well, it's, a substance where you can make a lot of money. and you've got the drug cartels involved in that. how can you control the growth of coca without getting the drug cartels involved and keeping it from being processed into the cocaine that can be, obviously, a lot worse in terms of effects on a society compared to the coca leaf? >> you know, i think this is o
get access to much more benign drugs like marijuana, they might make decisions that if they had the education to know that this is actually a healthier choice for you. it's a harm reduction model. we might not ever get rid of drugs completely, but there are safer alternatives to the worse options. >> we have one last question over here in the corner for the evening, and then we're going to have to wrap up this portion and move on to the book signing. so the last question for the evening....
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we talk about the first apartment, we talk about the fact that, you know, kids need to finish their education. but the one thing that a young person needs more than anything else is an adult who unconditionally loves them and commits to them and won't let go of them. it's what made a difference in my life. and the thing that i think you'll see in "almost home" that made a difference in these kids' lives is people stepped up to be that person. the cook in new orleans. as tina often says, it's often not the executive director or, you know, the president or the director of the charity, but it's, you know, the janitor or the cook or the mentor who come into the shelter who just decides i'm not letting go of this kid, and i'm going to help this can kid get across that bridge. maybe two more questions, and then we're going to, um, conclude. if there are any more. yes. >> [inaudible] >> hi. >> thank you for being here, for the work that you do. my question, actually, we've heard about other ways that adults can help, but are there different avenues that youth can help, the ohmless youth? i went to s
we talk about the first apartment, we talk about the fact that, you know, kids need to finish their education. but the one thing that a young person needs more than anything else is an adult who unconditionally loves them and commits to them and won't let go of them. it's what made a difference in my life. and the thing that i think you'll see in "almost home" that made a difference in these kids' lives is people stepped up to be that person. the cook in new orleans. as tina often...
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challenge, an outside moment that would regenerate our interest in research and development and in education. the sputnik launch in 1957. it may been to a younger generation to defuse because sputnik is probably not as -- as it is to the older generation but i was pretty clever. most of his slogans were not really caught on. the first summer he was in wishing to and he said, and it's a strange construct but he said in august this is the time when the shinki and becomes more -- and nobody knows what it means. somehow it's applicable. [laughter] so on that low note, i think i'm going to see if you guys have any questions that you want to talk about. yes, sir m.? >> i'm surprised you didn't mention the president's that we popularly think are so eloquent john f. kennedy. where they just good at regular words? >> john f. kennedy had some wonderful phrases and new frontier was his. but they were eloquent in their sensibility and the speeches. it wasn't that they created a term that was everlasting and some of them have interesting -- you would go to new frontier and go to term and. truman had cost
challenge, an outside moment that would regenerate our interest in research and development and in education. the sputnik launch in 1957. it may been to a younger generation to defuse because sputnik is probably not as -- as it is to the older generation but i was pretty clever. most of his slogans were not really caught on. the first summer he was in wishing to and he said, and it's a strange construct but he said in august this is the time when the shinki and becomes more -- and nobody knows...
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rather, they are people like former ministers of education, ministers of culture, religious ideologues, or people who are in mullah omar's circle who recognize, and usually these are the same people who tried to reconcile in 2002, 2003. they recognize the taliban are not going to win this war, and i think, to me it's clear the taliban are not going to win this war and to recognize that. and, therefore, coming out of, very practical need, there's an opening, or they have a sort of orientation trying to find negotiation. is 10 or 15 people today who are taliban leadership. there's a dozen people who are in abu dhabi and a couple people in turkey and as was people in pakistan right now your and so that to me constitutes one sort of click, very informally, a click of the taliban leadership. and a second grouping is what i think of is the military side. the military, people who are actually, they themselves may not be on the ground in afghanistan leading the fight, but they're the ones who were directing the urgency on the daily level. these are people who either for the most part distrust
rather, they are people like former ministers of education, ministers of culture, religious ideologues, or people who are in mullah omar's circle who recognize, and usually these are the same people who tried to reconcile in 2002, 2003. they recognize the taliban are not going to win this war, and i think, to me it's clear the taliban are not going to win this war and to recognize that. and, therefore, coming out of, very practical need, there's an opening, or they have a sort of orientation...
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challenge, an outside moment that would regenerate our interest in research and development and in education and stuff, as had the sputnik launch in the 1957. it may have been to a younger generation it may have been too diffuse, because sputnik is probably not as big a thing as it is to an older generation, but that was pretty clever. but most of his slogans, most of his abilities so far have not, have not really caught on. the first summer he was in washington he said, and it's a strange construct, but he said in august he said this is the time when washington becomes all wee weed up and things are hard to get done. no one really knows what it means, but it's somehow applicable. [laughter] so on that low note, i think i'm going to see if you guys have any questions and want to talk about these things. yes, ma'am. >> i'm surprised that you didn't mention the president that we popularly think are the most eloquent; ronald reagan and john f. kennedy. were they just good at regular words, or did they -- >> oh, no, they had, i mean, john f. kennedy had wonderful phrases, and the new frontier wa
challenge, an outside moment that would regenerate our interest in research and development and in education and stuff, as had the sputnik launch in the 1957. it may have been to a younger generation it may have been too diffuse, because sputnik is probably not as big a thing as it is to an older generation, but that was pretty clever. but most of his slogans, most of his abilities so far have not, have not really caught on. the first summer he was in washington he said, and it's a strange...
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they, like so many other southern evangelicals, migrated to california, started megachurches, educational institutions and eventually became deeply involved in politics. beverly lehay who is a particular interest of mine in this book founded a group called conservative women for america which still claims to be the largest women's political organization in the united states, and she based her organization on five spiritual principles; the bible, the family, patriotism, the sanctity of marriage, the sanctity of life. and she began to litigate arguing that religious parents should have more control, for example, over what their children were taught in school, arguing that, um, the era, the equal rights amendment for women, was a violation of the fundamental order of things and winning many of these cases. >> host: did you interview her for your book? >> guest: i did not. she actually lives in seclusion now. she's very -- she retired about almost 15 years ago now and lives, um, in california again. >> host: somebody you would have liked to have talked to? >> guest: i would very much like to
they, like so many other southern evangelicals, migrated to california, started megachurches, educational institutions and eventually became deeply involved in politics. beverly lehay who is a particular interest of mine in this book founded a group called conservative women for america which still claims to be the largest women's political organization in the united states, and she based her organization on five spiritual principles; the bible, the family, patriotism, the sanctity of marriage,...
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more we spend on financial aid and it would be a tragedy if this country moved in a direction to make education less affordable. so we as a university are very dependent and concerned about the fiscal health of this country. >> host: amy gutmann, are you also in the classroom at the university? >> guest: i enjoy teaching and take every opportunity to meet with students, talk to students and teacher my spare time. >> host: what does a provost do and how library at princeton? >> guest: i was at princeton for 28 years of the time i got my phd to the time i came to pan and was dean of the faculty at princeton and the chief academic and financial officer at princeton or the progress works closely with the president. >> host: with the learning curve on being president of the university? >> guest: well, the learning curve is steep for anybody and it's also very exciting. >> host: gives a primer. just go the university of pennsylvania had 10,000 undergraduates and 10 dozen graduate students. we have about 4500 faculty members. we ran three hospitals and we have a great school of medicine as well as a g
more we spend on financial aid and it would be a tragedy if this country moved in a direction to make education less affordable. so we as a university are very dependent and concerned about the fiscal health of this country. >> host: amy gutmann, are you also in the classroom at the university? >> guest: i enjoy teaching and take every opportunity to meet with students, talk to students and teacher my spare time. >> host: what does a provost do and how library at princeton?...
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all the different places where all the cooling goes and how they keep that oil -- getting makerbot is educational and how things are made in the manufacturing process and in the world around us. you can play me. >> host: where did you come up with the idea of? >> guest: 3-d printers have been around for 25 years but they were mainframe sized machines that were really expensive. i wanted one that i couldn't afford one. so some friends and i got together and we started tinkering. when it worked we quit our jobs and started makerbot so everybody could have one of these. >> host: bre pettis is the founder of makerbot in the ceo of the makerbot corporation out of brooklyn new york one of the hottest products here on the floor of ces. you have been watching "the communicators" on c-span
all the different places where all the cooling goes and how they keep that oil -- getting makerbot is educational and how things are made in the manufacturing process and in the world around us. you can play me. >> host: where did you come up with the idea of? >> guest: 3-d printers have been around for 25 years but they were mainframe sized machines that were really expensive. i wanted one that i couldn't afford one. so some friends and i got together and we started tinkering. when...
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with this strategy in a world where they're so closed to the changing social makeup of -- who is the educated work force in the united states anymore? mostly women, more and more diverse, and i you work at exxonmobil and go home to your family thanksgiving dinner and say i work at exxonmobil and half your cousins and your brothers look at you in disdain or worry, that's not a wing strategy over 30 years. so something has to give, i think. i'm not sure they think that, though. >> host: that's one of my questions, too. is that it seems to me that kind of, we are who we are and take it or leave it, don't care what everybody else thinks about that -- has that backfired on them? seems that could have been a force to cultivate more distrust and distaste, and help make them, as you say in the book, public enemy number one at pointness their history. >> guest: yeah. well, it's a great question and a kind of complicated one. i think one of my goals as a reporter was to try to understand as best i could and to think about what is it like to be so unpopular? does it matter? their default view, doesn't m
with this strategy in a world where they're so closed to the changing social makeup of -- who is the educated work force in the united states anymore? mostly women, more and more diverse, and i you work at exxonmobil and go home to your family thanksgiving dinner and say i work at exxonmobil and half your cousins and your brothers look at you in disdain or worry, that's not a wing strategy over 30 years. so something has to give, i think. i'm not sure they think that, though. >> host:...
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one of the things that i hold most dear is that my father taught me to value education. he was such a tirade about it. he often threatened to send it back to mexico if i didn't do well in school. >> host: was that a scary threat? >> guest: yes it was. i did not want to go back to mexico. i wanted to make him proud. i felt i owed him because he brought me here. i felt that i never wanted my father to say i should not have brought you. it always located me to do well in school and to do all these great things that he wanted me to do. and he never said that to me. as i was writing the book, really wanted to make sure that he didn't come across as the villain in the story. i really wanted to give him his humanity. there were a lot of great things about my dad. but he was also dealing with a lot of difficulties that unfortunately affected our relationship. >> host: you talked about them and go to church one sunday and he held up a budweiser beer and said, this is my god. when did he pass away? >> guest: he passed away last year. he died of liver cancer was diagnosed with cirr
one of the things that i hold most dear is that my father taught me to value education. he was such a tirade about it. he often threatened to send it back to mexico if i didn't do well in school. >> host: was that a scary threat? >> guest: yes it was. i did not want to go back to mexico. i wanted to make him proud. i felt i owed him because he brought me here. i felt that i never wanted my father to say i should not have brought you. it always located me to do well in school and to...
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. >> well, we really understood the press has educational media, educational tv. there was -- everything that had been going on that we were involved in had been going on for a hundred years. and it was very hard to get out. now, i was -- because this is 1963, i was reminded that fred shuttles word came to get martin luther king on the 17th of december to promise that he would come to birmingham this year. but that is because on the 14th or 15th fred's church had been bombed for the third time in 1962. there had been 60 bombings of homes that had received no publicity. and fred shuttles worth was quite frank that he needed martin luther king to come over there to get any attention to this injustice. now, one of my other good friends, a guy who had been with us in the movement from cameraman was quite blunt with me about a, saying, look, you're going to have to cut me some slack because i have to keep the camera on dr. king because if they kill him and i don't get a picture of it, i lose my job. no, it was almost that cold and analysis where martin luther king knew
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getting a makerbot is also an education in how things are made in the manufacturing process and in the world around us. >> host: are you the inventer? >> guest: you can blame me. [laughter] where did you come up with the idea? >> guest: you know, 3-d printers have been around for about 25 years, but they were mainframe-size machines that were really expensive. i wanted one. but i couldn't afford one. so some friends and i got together, and we started tinkering. and when it worked, we quit our jobs and started makerbot so everybody could have one of these. >> host: bre pettis is the founder of makerbot and the ceo of the makerbot corporation out of brooklyn, new york, one of the ottest products on -- hottest products here on the floor of ces. [inaudible conversations] >> host: and you've been watching "the communicators" on c-span from las vegas and ces international 2013, the technology show. we will be back next week with more programming from this con convention. >> david maraniss began researching and writing his tenth book "barack obama: the story" in 2009. he traveled around the w
getting a makerbot is also an education in how things are made in the manufacturing process and in the world around us. >> host: are you the inventer? >> guest: you can blame me. [laughter] where did you come up with the idea? >> guest: you know, 3-d printers have been around for about 25 years, but they were mainframe-size machines that were really expensive. i wanted one. but i couldn't afford one. so some friends and i got together, and we started tinkering. and when it...
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poster with your educational background? >> guest: every two bryn mawr college, proud women's college in pennsylvania. and then i had a stint abroad. the second is scotland. then i came back and went to harvard, a phd from harvard in philosophy. and then after harvard i started teaching aikido, where's associate professor but then came to georgetown but they stand that the naval academy and a few other lectureship theater and there. >> host: this is your first exposure to soldiers or had she been exposed to them before? >> guest: it's an interesting history. and that has been working she serve in vietnam. but in one case is a graduate school deferment. my husband's case and my brother was for medical reasons not eligible. and that was, as you know, a momentous come historical moment on college campuses in the late 60s, early 70s. it was an unpopular war and given there was prescription is an unpopular work. so when i went to the naval academy, i ended up serving, as i like to say next to kernels who had been in the palm and
poster with your educational background? >> guest: every two bryn mawr college, proud women's college in pennsylvania. and then i had a stint abroad. the second is scotland. then i came back and went to harvard, a phd from harvard in philosophy. and then after harvard i started teaching aikido, where's associate professor but then came to georgetown but they stand that the naval academy and a few other lectureship theater and there. >> host: this is your first exposure to soldiers...
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one is that my father taught me to value education. he was such a tyrant and a threat in me to go back to mexico. it really was scary. i believe tim. i did not want to go back. i wanted to make him proud and because i a day than to break in one negative bring me i felt i owed him that i did not want him to say i should not have brought you. that is what motivated me to do well in school for the things that i wanted to do because i did not want to hear that ever. he never said that. he didn't but as i was writing the book i wanted to make sure he did not come across as the villain. i wanted to give him his humanity. he had great things, my dad. also dealing with a lot of difficulties that unfortunately affected our relationship. >>host: you talk about how you wanted to go to church one sunday and he held up the budweiser saying this is my god. >>guest: he died from liver cancer last year. he was diagnosed with cirrhosis in 1993 and never told us and kept drinking. he actually gave up drinking in the late nineties and became a very relig
one is that my father taught me to value education. he was such a tyrant and a threat in me to go back to mexico. it really was scary. i believe tim. i did not want to go back. i wanted to make him proud and because i a day than to break in one negative bring me i felt i owed him that i did not want him to say i should not have brought you. that is what motivated me to do well in school for the things that i wanted to do because i did not want to hear that ever. he never said that. he didn't...
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for any number of years in p developing their own lek lodge -- technological capability, either the educational foundation of it or just any other aspects of oil and gas technology and so forth that they can't produce, come up with on their own reasonably, reasonably inexpensively or at least in comparison to what they have to sort of come up with if they have to deal with the rest of the world, and if particular, of course, whether they'll be forced to look to the u.s. or to the sort of traditional western position for that. >> well, thank you for that question. that is, indeed, the central question. that is the question that needs to be raised next. let me say, first of all, to put things in perspective that when i say that the russian oil industry is not ready, and i'm going to take a few minutes to answer this question, so i hope i won't keep you standing too long, we're talking about extremely clever people. and we're talking about people who are not standing still. so the right way to think of it is moving fronts. the world oil industry has been moving so fast that what we're talking abou
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the religious discourse and more education can do that. so we been at the pakistani military can only have a limited impact. i would like to see a much broader effort to do with these decisions. thank you. >> three questions here, punch them together because they're pretty much out of time. we make the answer short and the question sure. thank you. i do not >> i thank you for the presentations. i have two questions. one of the main arguments is two days ago good situation or environment for pursuing negotiation of describing 2004. i want to know in light of all the things we know of what the government has received about the taliban and the americans, why does it say that americans taliban ace would find this two days good times in early 2000 when i mentioned iran. could you please elaborate more? the other is in passing i heard something about him yet and iran. they have any role is to discuss. thank you very much. >> katie from the department of state. mr. abbas, you linked the reference, the growth of ttp to the lack of support received
the religious discourse and more education can do that. so we been at the pakistani military can only have a limited impact. i would like to see a much broader effort to do with these decisions. thank you. >> three questions here, punch them together because they're pretty much out of time. we make the answer short and the question sure. thank you. i do not >> i thank you for the presentations. i have two questions. one of the main arguments is two days ago good situation or...
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academy exploited this elegant arrangement to answer one of the most important questions in higher education. which professors are most effective? you're all giving students who look like each other, same readings come same test, doing a good job. here's the answer. the professors with less experience and fewer degrees from a fancy universities, these professors have students who typically do better on standardized exams for the introductory courses but they also get a better student evaluations for their courses. clearly these young motivated instructors are more committed to the teachings in the old crusty guys with ph.d some places like harvard. the old guys must be using the same yellowing notes for use in 1978. they probably think powerpoint is an energy drink, except they don't know what an energy drink is either. the data tell us that we should find these old codgers, or at least let them retire gracefully. but hold on. don't fire anybody yet. the air force academy study has another relevant finding. about student performance over a longer horizon. they found that in math and science
academy exploited this elegant arrangement to answer one of the most important questions in higher education. which professors are most effective? you're all giving students who look like each other, same readings come same test, doing a good job. here's the answer. the professors with less experience and fewer degrees from a fancy universities, these professors have students who typically do better on standardized exams for the introductory courses but they also get a better student...
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who else among the founders and framers could have taken a ragtag band of poorly educated farmers and ill-equipped black smiths and defeat the world's greatest military? not ben franklin, not james madison, not thomas jefferson, only george. so george is a great, great man. and i think part of the reason historians haven't focused on his marriage and affairs because somehow it would be seen as diminishing him, and doesn't every great leader claim to be a self-made man? as a matter of fact, a lot of them are mother-made men or wife-made men or mistress-made men. washington could have been all of the above. when george was a young man, he had a great, great goal of being a gentleman planter and an officer in the british military. he wanted to be, you know, very important. the problem for george was this. while his father, augustine, did okay, george was the first-born son of the second marriage. and when augustine died when george was a little boy, augustine left almost everything to his sons from his first marriage because augustine had rotten marriage with his second wife. she was sor
who else among the founders and framers could have taken a ragtag band of poorly educated farmers and ill-equipped black smiths and defeat the world's greatest military? not ben franklin, not james madison, not thomas jefferson, only george. so george is a great, great man. and i think part of the reason historians haven't focused on his marriage and affairs because somehow it would be seen as diminishing him, and doesn't every great leader claim to be a self-made man? as a matter of fact, a...
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book tv, supreme court justice sandra so, your recounts the life of her childhood in the bronx to her education at princeton and yale
book tv, supreme court justice sandra so, your recounts the life of her childhood in the bronx to her education at princeton and yale
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so in this period 63 to 65 comegys 34 to 36-years-old, a very, very young man, boyish looking, well-educated, has his wife, coretta, and for children caught the young guest who were quite young, the youngest boreman 63, born in birmingham. so dexter irca the youngest is just an infant during this period. this is a period when dr. king is most political, in the sense that in the early your workout in the parting of the waters come he's getting drawn into other people's movements because he's an orator, and he would go help out. the bus boycott wasn't his idea. the freedom rides and the sit-ins certainly weren't his idea to give he would get called in to these meetings. but by 1963 where we start here, he's right and that the south is hardened against segregation and that the moment in history might fit without implementing something into history that will resist that recession, that retrograde trend. and he takes a huge risk to the he says i'm going to have my own movement. i'm going to risk everything. first in birmingham to try to crack segregation and then later in selma, where we ending 6
so in this period 63 to 65 comegys 34 to 36-years-old, a very, very young man, boyish looking, well-educated, has his wife, coretta, and for children caught the young guest who were quite young, the youngest boreman 63, born in birmingham. so dexter irca the youngest is just an infant during this period. this is a period when dr. king is most political, in the sense that in the early your workout in the parting of the waters come he's getting drawn into other people's movements because he's an...
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main character isn't even on the stage yet and the second act of the book is largely chicago with his education in california, new york and boston thrown in some but largely chicago and that is when he recreate himself as a political been, so when you think about it we are all sort of created from a lot of different strengths but i can't think of anybody with a more fascinating mix them obama. >> host: tell us about the team here. >> i can't tell you how happy i am about the people in working with. i don't know swahili which is the mother tongue of this part of kenya and most people speak english, they all don't and the drive on the other side of the road and i would have been dead if i tried to drive myself plus there are no road signs. the places we've, i couldn't find in a million years and i'm pretty good at finding things, so i definitely needed a great driver and we got one. he is a friend and interested in politics. i needed somebody on the ground to help set up interviews and the national archives and elsewhere. i looked out and got ken who is 40-years-old, investigative journalist and
main character isn't even on the stage yet and the second act of the book is largely chicago with his education in california, new york and boston thrown in some but largely chicago and that is when he recreate himself as a political been, so when you think about it we are all sort of created from a lot of different strengths but i can't think of anybody with a more fascinating mix them obama. >> host: tell us about the team here. >> i can't tell you how happy i am about the people...
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board of education decision. as people like barbara johns, the high school student that led a walkout of the segregated school because of protesting in the interior education. that's in 1951 we don't even know their names anymore even with rosa parks and montgomery. there were two other teenagers who did the same thing. as of this resistance, largely among the young people. >> host: on both sides is and it? >> guest: definitely. when you talk about south africa we all remember nelson mandela it was the students and others that revised the movement that was more abundant in the late 60's. >> host: he did something that got a lot of criticism for him and dr. king. tell that story about the crusade. >> guest: he was at a crucial point in birmingham. he gave a direction in march and millions of people followed him, completely wrong. from montgomery which came didn't initiate through birmingham, king is a leader but only in birmingham can he initiate and sustain the movement but that point in april of 1963 all of the
board of education decision. as people like barbara johns, the high school student that led a walkout of the segregated school because of protesting in the interior education. that's in 1951 we don't even know their names anymore even with rosa parks and montgomery. there were two other teenagers who did the same thing. as of this resistance, largely among the young people. >> host: on both sides is and it? >> guest: definitely. when you talk about south africa we all remember...
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what is being done to make sure that their education the sql? that would've cost a lot of money, with cause a lot of resources, and that's, that's what a nation failed during that time. yes, we need to break down racial barriers and make it impossible to have an all white school. but that still doesn't do with the problem of what happened to the predominantly black school. >> host: during -- i was living in boston in the early '70s, some call forced boarding. boarding. i call the court ordered busing. we did want our children, our black children to go to school with white kids because we wanted to integrate. as you said we wanted to go to to those goals because the schools are better. the books are better. the opportunities are better. it takes me back to my other question of where are we on the quicksand of racial injustice and the hard rock? what are we in this country, not just black people, but white people. where are we? army summer in the middle? we have a black president. are we almost there? where are we? >> guest: i think that we need t
what is being done to make sure that their education the sql? that would've cost a lot of money, with cause a lot of resources, and that's, that's what a nation failed during that time. yes, we need to break down racial barriers and make it impossible to have an all white school. but that still doesn't do with the problem of what happened to the predominantly black school. >> host: during -- i was living in boston in the early '70s, some call forced boarding. boarding. i call the court...
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walkout to protest against fifth inferior education. 1951. many people we don't even know there names or other teenagers who did the same thing. so the resistance largely among young people. >> definitely when you talk about south africa, we all remember nelson mandela who was in a prison cell. for others to revived a movement in the early '70s and the late '60s. >> host: talking about children, james did something that got a lot of criticism for him and dr. king. >> guest: king was at a crucial point* in birmingham with millions of people across the country followed him. from montgomery which king did not initiate, through birmingham, king is a leader in search of a following. only in birmingham can he initiate and sustain a movement the dow reached a crucial point* in 1963 all those who were adults who were willing to get arrested already had been arrested. he writes his letter from the birmingham jail. it was not clear he bush win in birmingham. if he lost there would be no march upon washington or nobel peace prize. so what saved the day
walkout to protest against fifth inferior education. 1951. many people we don't even know there names or other teenagers who did the same thing. so the resistance largely among young people. >> definitely when you talk about south africa, we all remember nelson mandela who was in a prison cell. for others to revived a movement in the early '70s and the late '60s. >> host: talking about children, james did something that got a lot of criticism for him and dr. king. >> guest:...
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women are harder to judge, to income houses, not one income house and what has gone up is education. health care at rates exceeding inflation and for decades. housing famously took off off, rented in major city is skyrocketing, the cost of having children has increased and continues through post 2008 period. the things that people cannot get themselves out of have gone up considerably those that have declined that we identify as luxuries for greece to take over a week of work to buy a television set. now it is one day. clothing used to be expensive now that it comes from the third world it is cheap. that is not our issue it is the things you cannot get away from. i did my own experiment, not deliberately by husband and i decided we had to cut expenses and we said that is it for "the new york times." we are reading online. we can solve it and we're proud of ourselves for about two weeks it was $50 per month expense that we get in the nail health insurance goes up by $100 per month and they will pay less so as $50 a head i am now $50 behind but then it in your times turned around and s
women are harder to judge, to income houses, not one income house and what has gone up is education. health care at rates exceeding inflation and for decades. housing famously took off off, rented in major city is skyrocketing, the cost of having children has increased and continues through post 2008 period. the things that people cannot get themselves out of have gone up considerably those that have declined that we identify as luxuries for greece to take over a week of work to buy a...
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he was for changing the constitution to get a role for education. but he said, how is it that we have all these training programs run by the federal government dusting a billion dollars a year run out of washington to train teachers who are actually a local and community and state responsibility? how do we get there? and, oh, by the way, does anybody know if they are actually improving teacher training? actually improving the skills of our teachers. so it's really two questions. the constitutional role of the federal government and if their is a legitimate role or if there is in, you're spending the money. shouldn't you know? should we, when we pass this, say you're the metrics which will use to measure whether or not a teacher is effective? of whether the teacher training programs are effective? >> this month on our book tv in debt program senator tom coburn who is also a medical doctor and an author. wrote the debt bomb this past year. breach of trust and not in 2003. also the author of several different reports, including this one which came out
he was for changing the constitution to get a role for education. but he said, how is it that we have all these training programs run by the federal government dusting a billion dollars a year run out of washington to train teachers who are actually a local and community and state responsibility? how do we get there? and, oh, by the way, does anybody know if they are actually improving teacher training? actually improving the skills of our teachers. so it's really two questions. the...
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fulcrum going on, and they developed personal finance out of this over a period of years with the goal to educate people so the great depression does not happen again. it's very much in a way of its time, and the idea that we can teach people skills, and if they learn the skills, we'll be okay. what goes on over time is personal finance slowly becomes severed from a greater extent of this, and there's less about the political backbone of it and always to be fair to porter for a good part of her career, a huge part of the thinking, and how to toilet train your toddler, how to cook, follow these ten steps, and all will be okay, and if you don't, it's not going to be okay; therefore, if you followed the ten steps, it has to have worked out, and if it didn't work out, then you didn't follow the steps. it's all op you, and that's over a period of years what started personal finance. >> host: do you see the same parallel i saw between the financial media and fashion media? if you don't look like this gorgeous young anorexic model, there's something wrong with you? if you are not saving a hundred thousa
fulcrum going on, and they developed personal finance out of this over a period of years with the goal to educate people so the great depression does not happen again. it's very much in a way of its time, and the idea that we can teach people skills, and if they learn the skills, we'll be okay. what goes on over time is personal finance slowly becomes severed from a greater extent of this, and there's less about the political backbone of it and always to be fair to porter for a good part of her...
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education is rippled over the past couple of decades. housing as we all know famously took off. rent in major cities still skyrocketing even though people have lost houses. the cost of having housing has increased and its continued to increase for this entire period as other things have stagnated. so the things that people couldn't get themselves out of have gone up considerably. the things that have declined somewhat are the things that used to take over a week of work to buy a television set. now it is barely a day. kloden used to be more expensive on the third world now it is very cheap so that is and what our issue is. i did my own experiment with it, not deliberately, in writing the book my husband and i had to cover our expenses and a free probably go through like "the new york times". we are going to cut it out but we can. this is about a 50-dollar a month extent and we then get in the mail our health insurance is going up by a hundred dollars a month and we are going to pay on top of that. so as opposed to being $50 a head i am now $50 behind and then some and then the f
education is rippled over the past couple of decades. housing as we all know famously took off. rent in major cities still skyrocketing even though people have lost houses. the cost of having housing has increased and its continued to increase for this entire period as other things have stagnated. so the things that people couldn't get themselves out of have gone up considerably. the things that have declined somewhat are the things that used to take over a week of work to buy a television set....
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offered me to go to school, and i had another uncle who convinced me how important it was to have an education outside, to be able to speak another language, and it would help me through my life in the future. i wanted actually to be an architect and an engineer like my uncles were, but because of the cuba -- instead of going to the university of miami, which i was accepted, i decided to go and fight for my country. c-span: what did you learn in pennsylvania about what your own interests were, in pennsylvania, when you went to school there? did you -- what did you begin to think were going to be your interests, and where did you go after school? >> guest: well, my interest when i went to high school first there was engineering and architecture, but as things turned different in cuba, back in 1959, when fidel took over, i concentrated my thoughts on being able to return to my county, and that is the thing that prevailed then and now. i think it is my main objective in life. that is why i went to the training camps in -- first, the one in the dominican republic, that was the first action that we
offered me to go to school, and i had another uncle who convinced me how important it was to have an education outside, to be able to speak another language, and it would help me through my life in the future. i wanted actually to be an architect and an engineer like my uncles were, but because of the cuba -- instead of going to the university of miami, which i was accepted, i decided to go and fight for my country. c-span: what did you learn in pennsylvania about what your own interests were,...